Checklist To Move The Development Site To The Production Server

Here’s my checklist for moving a development-WordPress-install to the production server. The site on a development server is configured quite differently from the one on the production server—think caching, search console, analytics integration.

I avoid using any plugins to do a migration. I take a purist’s approach, create a compressed archive of all the files and upload on the production server. I export the database and import it on the client’s server. Find and replace the development server URL in the database to use the production server’s URL. After restoration here it is step-wise: